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People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
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Fool
People
Relation
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If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
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Gossip
Half
Rumor
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As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
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Dresses
Elements
Manners
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Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
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Lawyer
Spiders
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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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Economy
Exceed
Expenditures
Mean
Poor
Rich
Whose
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Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
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Opportunity
Give Me A Chance
Giving
Stupid
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He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
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Sports
May
Missing
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An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
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Imagination
May
Strong
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Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.
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Faces
Fun
Race
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
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Hope
Men
Bankers
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Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.
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Government
Favoritism
Natural
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We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
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Articles
Luxury
Surrender
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The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
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Travel
Rose
Tourists
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Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
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Doe
Husband
Law
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
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Knowledge
Men
Ignorance
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
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Beautiful
Heart
Memories
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One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
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Fool
Philosopher
Sometimes
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If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
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Expenses
Hands
Hats
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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton / Politician
Smile
Women
Angel
Babe
Born
Envy
Might
Mother
Two
Words
Love Women Mother
Accepts
Before
Woman
Lover
Lights
Smiles
Uttered
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What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
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Cold
Hate
Sight
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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
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Happiness
Smile
Mom
Mother
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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
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Kissing
Long
Romantic Love
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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?
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Fun
Heart
Light
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Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.
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Bird
Doors
Sky
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Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.
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Facts
Pay
People
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